Breakfast Week in Review
A while back on the twitter I somehow made a habit of tweeting about my breakfast, and I do this nearly every day. It’s mundane, it’s repetitive (I seem to eat a lot of breakfast sandwiches consisting of bacon, egg, and cheese), and it’s almost certainly boring. I also find it sort of soothing to write about breakfast in 140 characters, and apparently my friends like it too because several of them now do the same thing.
Also, in twitter terms, I think of breakfast as something that separates the real people from the pay-per-click machines, since I haven’t yet come across somebody with posts like “I just added N followers with ____” who also writes about having had a Pop-Tart before grabbing coffee on the way to work. So I stick with it. Keepin’ it real, yo.
Anyway, this week we’ve been on the road or in the air, and in parts of Canada where we don’t feel like paying usurious data roaming charges and can’t find open wifi, so the breakfast reports have fallen off. To remediate:
- Monday: woke up to find that every server in our cabinet at the colo had fallen off the internet. While waiting on an update on whether I was going to have to drive to the colo (nearly an hour away) I made a breakfast sandwich and coffee, assuming I’d need to be fully fortified to survive the day. Didn’t have to go to colo after all.
- Tuesday: rice Chex, iced coffee. Knew I’d be eating lunch at the airport, so I didn’t want to overdo it. Lunch, for that matter, was a turkey sandwich at the Sam Adams restaurant in the A terminal at DCA, and the Boston Ale (which is better than the Boston Lager, which I find to be a completely uninteresting beer).
- Wednesday: sausage, egg, and cheese on biscuit from Tim Horton’s, hash brown patty, “Canadian Maple” (cream filled, as opposed to the “maple dipped”) donut, coffee. Would not spend the money for the hash brown patty again, but I liked the donut.
- Thursday: “Morning Glory Western” at Morning Glory on King Street E in Toronto, coffee. They were out of ham, so I checked the menu again for a second choice and then asked if they could just sub in bacon. They could. It was good. It was served on a chewy Ciabatta, with homemade condiments.
- Friday: Finding no obvious ham or bacon in my sister’s fridge, I made omelettes with mushrooms and cheddar, and moka pot coffee with frothed milk. Toasted raisin bread with butter. The raisin bread came from the market on the corner and was baked by some of the local Mennonites. I recommend every one of their baked goods that I’ve had.
And those are the breakfasts that were.
